Just Works

Plugins

That is all it takes to minify and optimize all your source assets and get them ready for production. Of course, this is dependent on the plugin author having put in the effort to have that work out for you - I hope the community does not detract from this ideal! That said, some plugins may not work with zero config. I haven't found any.

Live Reload

A major headache in Gulp was getting a quick and easy live-reload setup going. Brunch does that for you out of the box!

Config Reload

If you have the server running, adding in an npm package doesn't require you to restart it - Brunch is smart enough to pick up the changes and reload on its own.

Skeletons

Lots of skeletons to help you get started even faster! Or just use plugins to cook your own meal.

Sassy Documentation

If your tagline is Seeing your build tool in nightmares? Try Brunch!, you've sold your product halfway within the first 5 seconds of your official pitch. The getting started guide is no less, mind you!

Deploying is Adventurous

Are you familiar with rsync? That's all I needed to know to deploy it to my VPS over SSH! Personally, I don't mind this bit of configuration at all - it's quite fun to do after having to do nothing anywhere else.